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Get the most from Terminalfour with these articles.

A/B Testing in Terminalfour

Developing your Site, Up and Running

A/B Testing is a great way for you to test two variations of your content to judge whether one performs better than another.

Adding a Google Analytics Report to the Dashboard

Up and Running

Adding Google Reports to Terminalfour Dashboards

Building an Accessible site in Terminalfour

Useful Tools

This outlines the steps to take to assist in the creation of an accessible site in Terminalfour.

Accessible Images with Media Content Types

Useful Tools

Making an accessible media Content Type Layout the default will help your site comply with accessibility guidelines.

Create Friendly URLs

Developing your Site

URLs are used by search engines, so it is important that they are human readable and give visitor an indicator of the location of the page.

Deprecation Updates

Useful Tools

A list of features and capabilities in Terminalfour that are being removed.

Designing your site in Terminalfour

Developing your Site, Up and Running

This article will help you to understand how pages are constructed in Terminalfour so you can code pages that will work neatly once built in

Developing and Testing in TERMINALFOUR

Developing your Site

How to develop changes to a live website without affecting the site, but still allowing the ability to test the changes.

Direct Edit Development Tips and Tricks

Developing your Site

Learn how you can develop your site to make the most of Direct Edit. Create an editing experience your Content Editors enjoy.

A guide to working with external data

Developing your Site, Useful Tools

Guidelines on the various ways of including data from other systems on your website.

Create Flexible Page Titles

Developing your Site

Title tags are used by search engines and social media as the clickable link, so it is important that it is engaging and accurate.

Getting started with Terminalfour

Up and Running

Now that you have installed Terminalfouryou’ll want to start adding pages, content and publish your site

Git Integration Tool

Developing your Site

Git Integration Tool

How to Generate web.config files for IIS (Redirection & Error Page control)

Troubleshooting

An IIS web.config file is an XML file containing rules for a particular site (or directory) on your web server.

Import Content From CSV

Troubleshooting, Useful Tools

Using the External Content Syncer to sync a CSV file with TERMINALFOUR

Import Content From XML

Troubleshooting, Useful Tools

Using the External Content Syncer to sync an XML file with Terminalfour

How to Install TERMINALFOUR

Up and Running

How to Install TERMINALFOUR

Integrating Ellucian Ethos and Terminalfour

Developing your Site, Useful Tools

This article outlines the steps to integrate Ellucian Ethos with Terminalfour.

Link Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting links

Migrating TinyMCE plugins to version 5

Troubleshooting

From version 8.3.12, Terminalfour has been upgraded to use v5.8.2 of the TinyMCE editor.

Optimizing Publish Performance

Troubleshooting

How to investigate a slow publish and improve publish times.

Product Terms (Glossary)

FAQs & Glossary, Up and Running

Get to know the terms used in Terminalfour.

Redesigning an existing website

Developing your Site

There are a few different ways to apply a new design to a site that is already in Terminalfour, depending on the changes required.

Release Notes Highlights

Up and Running

In case you missed them here are some highlights from version 8.3.1 on up.

Scheduled Tasks and Daylight Savings Time

Troubleshooting

Daylight Savings Time (DST) has been, up to now, a challenge for publish and transfer times

Integration with Silktide

Useful Tools

How to configure an integration between a Terminalfour site and the SilkTide API.

Supported Systems

FAQs & Glossary, Troubleshooting, Up and Running

Because Terminalfour is based on open standards, it can run on a wide variety of different operating systems and application servers.

Technical Roadmap

FAQs & Glossary

Upcoming and recent changes relating to the Technical Roadmap, Supported Systems etc.

Guide to updating your site's JavaScript and CSS

Developing your Site

Some examples of ways to test updates to your global CSS and JavaScript on site that is live in TERMINALFOUR.

Web API Token Authentication

Useful Tools

Authentication just got a whole lot more secure with the addition of token authorization in version 8.3.4.

Using Postman to examine the Ethos data model

Developing your Site, Useful Tools

You can use the Postman API Development Environment app to familiarise yourself with the data model and values.

What's new in 8.2

Troubleshooting

TERMINALFOUR Version 8.2: Main changes, enhancements and new features

What's new in 8.3

Troubleshooting

We're excited to announce the release of Version 8.3 of TERMINALFOUR's Digital Marketing and Web Content Management Platform!